Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961)[1] is an Indian-American physicist, writer, editor, and journalist. She is the author of The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders (2003) and Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II (2010). She is a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor with Scientific American.[2]
Madhusree Mukerjee | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63)[1] Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
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Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, physicist |
Notable work | Churchill's Secret War (2010) |
Website | madhusree.com |
Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She is a graduate of Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu[3]—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).[4]
After completing her post-doctoral studies at Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for Physics Today for one year and since 2003, she has worked for Scientific American,[5][6][3] where she is the senior editor for science and society.[7]
She received a Guggenheim fellowship to complete her first book, entitled The Land of Naked People (2003).[6][8][9] In her second book, entitled Churchill's Secret War (2010), Mukerjee documents the role played by the policies, as well as the racial and political worldview, of the war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his trusted friend and advisor, Frederick Lindemann, in the death and devastation caused by the Bengal famine of 1943 and the partition of India.[10]
During 2011, Mukerjee was living in Germany with her husband, who teaches physics at Frankfurt University, and their son.[1]